Joy Sikorski
Voice & Piano
Joy Sikorski, a seasoned vocal and piano instructor with over 30 years of professional practice connects her students, young and old, to the highest levels of artistic mastery. This mastery, a subtle balance between music’s tangible and intangible nature, allows students to evoke authentic expressions about how they experience life. A former 2nd grade student said it best: “It’s a wondrous place!”
Her Story
Joy’s core philosophy about music education is simple, yet based on neuroscience, early childhood development research, her training, and experiential knowledge:
• The first melodies and rhythms of life–a mother’s voice and heartbeat–form the foundation for all future musical and verbal expression. Careful training after birth decides how the child will build or not build on that foundation.
EDUCATION
• Age 4: piano student of Dolores Crimi, whose teacher studied with Debussy
• Age 11: performed as piano soloist with the Southeast Symphony Orchestra of
Los Angeles, made television appearances, and was hailed a child prodigy by
the Los Angeles Times
• California State University, Bachelor of Arts in Music, emphasis on voice
• California State University Master of Arts in Humanities, emphasis on the
concept of joy in ancient cultures as expressed through song
• Additional graduate scholarship music studies at the University of Southern
California
• Master Classes: Van Cliburn, Beverly Sills, Jean-Pierre Rampal
• Independent studies about neuroscience, early childhood development, and the
voice
• Voice Instructors - Madame Ina Souez, William Eddy, Dr. James Kinnee, Corinne
Swall-White,
• Composition Instructors: Dr. Simon Carfagno (student of Schoenberg); Dr.
George Longazo
• Musical Theatre Writing - John Sparks, Scott Guy, Academy for New Musical
Theatre
• MIDI training - Roland Institute
LESSON DESIGNER
• Singing MastermindTM digital 3-month vocal training course
• SingBabySingTM early childhood vocal training
• Music Appreciation online course
COMPOSER
Joy, a former member of the Society for Composers and Lyricists has created a full- length film score and a documentary film score (PSRA Award), and collaborates with, among others, Michael Silversher, a Grammy Award and Emmy-nominated composer of children’s music with whom she shares co-composer and co-lyricist credits for a musical based on Newbury Award-winner Lois Lowry’s 'Gathering Blue.' Her favorite form of performance is to simultaneously create piano and vocal music in the moment before live audiences.
BOOKS & PERIODICALS
• Singing Through Life With Your Mouth Closed
• Your Voice, Your Child
• Tamar of the Terebinths
• Inlandia: A Literary Journal
• L.A. Parent
PERFORMANCE/TELEVISION/RADIO
Various television, radio, recital, and guest performance appearances in the United States, Germany, England, Greece, Romania, Sweden, and Grand Cayman
• Inspired over 300,000 vocal students with her YouTube videos
Further Info
Joy is currently Accepting a limited number of private students and multiple students in her Group Voice Class: "Beyond Singing," featured weekly on Thursdays at FCM.
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